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Alcyone

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Alcyone

In Greek mythology, the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. She and her husband were changed into kingfishers after Ceyx was shipwrecked and Alcyone had thrown herself into the sea in her grief.

Halcyon days were supposed to be two weeks of calm while the kingfisher (alcyon) was breeding in a floating nest.

Alcyone

Brightest member of the Pleiades cluster, a third-magnitude blue star. It is one of the cluster of stars in the zodiacal constellation of Taurus.



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whose stars are these: -- `Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
He it was who took his bow and faced King Apollo himself for fair Marpessa's sake; her father and mother then named her Alcyone, because her mother had mourned with the plaintive strains of the halcyon-bird when Phoebus Apollo had carried her off.
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